Tema: SOHO Shangdu, Beijing

LAB is pleased to announce its success at the recent national RAIA (Royal Institute of Architects) awards, with the completed SOHO Shangdu project in Beijing being awarded the National Award for International Architecture. SOHO Shangdu is a 170,000 m2 mixed-use development, on a 2.2 hectare site, located within Beijing’s CBD (central business district) special development area. LAB’s latest building provides a uniquely vibrant and activated urban space in central Beijing. The design consists of a low-rise commercial galleria with 37,000 m2 of retail space, and two medium-rise towers. One tower holds offices and the other devoted to residential and studio use, integrating SOHO China’s vertical warehouse shell approach. While the retail building’s exterior is a simple rhythm of black panels and glazing, the visual liveliness and public spaces are focussed on the interior. This conception of the space is based on the analogy of the geode, a rock with a simple exterior which, when cut, reveals an extraordinary crystalline interior. The interiors are dynamic and contemporary with a variety of different grains, spaces and passages that uses circulation and promenading as part of its theatre. The interior galleria spaces can accommodate a range of events from fashion parades to concerts, as a year round internal space with an abundance of natural lighting and ventilation. The three towers have been designed as crystalline forms with faceted surfaces which are embedded into the horizontal base of the retail blocks. The two main towers have been developed as high rise ‘warehouse shells’, enabling a variety of functional occupations and size configurations on each level. An efficient core and floor plan, with common toilets and a scissor stair fire escape, each unit is designed in an open plan configuration, serviced with its own localised air handling plant. The towers are inscribed with a unique pattern of light lines that creates a dynamic and distinctive identity on the Beijing skyline at night. This gives the buildings an identity disproportionate to their actual scale, the pattern, which is based upon a parametric geometry, is a contemporary re-working of the ‘ice-ray’ designs employed on traditional Chinese timber screens.

Joooder como mola, la primera imagen es increible, impresionante, menudo bicho

No quedara algo feo con este color tan oscuro?

Espectacular, gracias Urban!

Pues lo siento, pero a mi este me parece un enorme cascote.

Joe, qué guapo queda, muy futurista:

Empezado por Urban Dave

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Algo excesivo para mi gusto, queda algo "grande", un poco mas estilizado hubiera quedado mejor.

Coincido con algunos que es bastante tocho...

me parece un recinto muy interesante con similitudes a lo que quieren hacer Herzog y de Meuron en Burgos

Es increible!!! Esta genial!!!